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Mon, 04 May 2015 14:33:12 +0000http://nicoleshobert.wordpress.com/?p=147#comment-142Well struck – it is different today! We managed to turn out just fine without all of the common core, EOI, benchmark drama. We learned to learn!
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Wed, 05 Mar 2014 01:39:58 +0000http://nicoleshobert.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-66As a former teacher, I always had the following message for my parents, and their beautiful childrenhttp://loweeducation.com/2013/12/30/10-thoughts-a-teacher-hopes-all-parents-know/http://loweeducation.com/2014/03/01/end-of-the-year-a-teachers-message-to-students/
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Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:22:43 +0000http://nicoleshobert.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-65Nicole…as a retired superintendent of schools and a concerned lifetime citizen of Oklahoma I very much appreciate your efforts. Our current state leaders have an agenda that has been promoted by their constituency that is about keeping money in their pockets. I like money in my pocket too but understand that without public education I could have, and most likely would have, gone in a complete, and most likely negative dlirection. I currently operate two small businesses and do not rely on any public funding. The current political climate in our state does not only stand for smaller government but is antigovernment. Contrary to some of today’s popular beliefs government is not all bad. It you examine closely some goals and objectives of the state leaders of today you will find that vouchers for public funds to be used for private education is close to the top of the list. To accomplish this goal it will be necessary to show our public schools are failing. Thus high stakes testing and A to F school ratings. On the outset it appears vouchers would divide our students even further (haves and have nots). I sincerely hope their social experiment works for the best for all. I say this feeling very strongly that these changes are going to occur for better or worse. It’s a bold step that would appear to have many negative consequences. I hope I am wrong(been wrong many times before). If you need some assistance I would encourage you to contact the OSSBA or OASA. They have wonderful educated and informed people who fight for public education on a daily basis. Good luck with your endeavours and God Bless. Perry Adams, former Superintendent, Clinton Public Schools. Currently a rancher and bailbondsman.
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Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:16:56 +0000http://nicoleshobert.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-64Darlene, I didn’t see anything in Anna’s comments that were offensive. Your reply is very difficult to read, but it sounds like you’re saying that you are glad that educators dumb things down so that your grandchild get straight A’s. This isn’t doing your grandchild any favors, nor is it helping any of the other children in that class.
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Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:44:45 +0000http://nicoleshobert.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-63I honestly believe the intention is – if they continue to give lower and lower funds per child – more people will opt for private schools. This pushes us more and more toward religious funded education. This was the goal all along. You just have to make people desperate enough to do it.

It also gives them someone to blame. Sure they lower the amount per student, but it was Obama that made them do it!!! If they are able to convince people of this despite other states that are managing to do the opposite, it gets them even more upset. Those lousy liberals! See how they are damaging our children!! Therefore the current politicians stay in power, and just get even more upset at those lousy federal people that are ruining our great state. Meanwhile they rally on personal responsibility.

Personal responsibility would be admitting the facts. Without that federal government funding Oklahoma would be way worse off. We get more from that federal government we all hate than we put in. We are the poor state. States like New York and California that we hate are subsidizing Oklahoma. And just like when you get subsidized with money from your parents, the money does come with strings. We need to accept that. We don’t like welfare right? Then don’t expect something for nothing.

We are only to blame for our own suffering. Every time we vote someone in that just wants to lower taxes even though schools already don’t have enough it’s our fault. No one else is to blame. Did you even look at the other guy that wants to raise school funds? Or did you ignore him because of that D in front of his name. He/She was not going to lower taxes? Were you just so selfish that you might get another $80 bucks a year that it was worth ignoring him. Or for heavens sake was he going to support health care for the poor, which was enough to ignore him for that. Screw the children’s education right. That is more important.

Yes I am going on a bit of political tirade. Unfortunately the decisions for the funding, that is at the root of the problem here, is a much broader problem than just the small policies mentioned. There are intelligent ways to solve these problems. There are researchers into the best education policies. Listen to them. There are economists. Listen to them. All of this is something we can solve. Or we can dig our heads into the sand and just do what we want, conveniently blaming anyone we don’t like when our reckless ideas don’t work. That is the opposite of personal responsibility.

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Tue, 04 Mar 2014 02:46:59 +0000http://nicoleshobert.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-58Good for you! I have many friends who homeschool for a variety of reasons. It is a big decision that any family that homeschool has made because it is what they feel is best for them. I wish you the best of luck.
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Tue, 04 Mar 2014 02:17:10 +0000http://nicoleshobert.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-57I homeschool.
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Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:15:31 +0000http://nicoleshobert.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-56I have three children, and I pay my babysitter approximately that amount the 2-3 times/year that I go out.
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